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Monday, February 20, 2012

Different, yet the same

Okay, so…I’ve started a new WIP. I wrote a synopsis that’s fairly decent last
week (read: sucks eggs. LOL), today and tomorrow I’ll spend writing my chapter
by chapter outline, and hopefully I’ll start drafting it by the end of the
week.

My MC is as different from the one in RENEGADE as a tree is
to a chicken. They’re both living
things, but there’s no way you’d mistake one from the other. And that’s my
characters. It’s actually amusing to me
how different they are, but how similarly they started telling me their
story! It both started with them telling
me the first sentence of the book. I’m
hoping that’s a good sign. LOL!

But they’re so different I’m a little worried that people
won’t recognize the book as one of mine.

But then, last night, my daughter was comparing our
feet. And I noticed how different they
were. Not just the size, but the entire
structure. She has dancer’s feet. I most definetely don’t. But her nose is definitely
mine. Her ears. My husband. But her hair
is mine. I could go on and on about how
different she is, yet how much the same. But that’s not the point.

The point is that no matter how different she is from me,
there’s always something I can point out that’s all me. And my characters are
the same. No matter how different they are from each other, they’re written
(i.e. created) by me. I’m sure people
will see enough similarities in my style to know it’s from me. Just like people
who see my daughter know she’s mine by her similarities to me.

And that, to me, is how it's supposed to be. Each character I create should be different (no one wants to read about cookie cutter characters that are the same from book to book), but yet, they should be the same that they're recognizable as mine.